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Sneak a peek at the autobiography/memoir LANDING IN MY PRESENT by Mary Clark, Traveler on my blog, watch the book trailer, and enter the giveaway to win a signed copy of the book, a $25 Amazon gift card or a $15 Amazon gift card - three winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/07/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-landing-in.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Mary Walker Clark barely knew her father. When he died, he left not only the obvious void every teen would experience, but took with him scores of Indiana Jones-style tales about flying the Hump, a treacherous series of US missions that transported supplies over the Himalayas to China during World War II.

It would take a chance interview with a pilot who had flown with her father in the war to launch a series of extraordinary journeys—into a shrouded past and halfway around the globe to India and China—for Clark to finally come to know the father whose absence had haunted her for decades.

Landing in My Present chronicles the adventures of a daughter who chose to pry open a painful past while enlarging her view of an adventurous father long thought lost.

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Sep 28, 2020

Sneak a peek at the Middle Grade historical fiction novel THE DIARY OF ASSER LEVY: FIRST JEWISH CITIZEN OF NEW YORK by Daniela Weil, and read the titular character's top ten list on my blog! Enter the GIVEAWAY to win a SIGNED hardcover copy of the book!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/09/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-diary-of.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
For twenty-four years the Dutch colony of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil was a safe haven for Jews who had escaped the Inquisition in Europe. Recife, its capital, was known as “Colonial Jerusalem,” and it was from this religiously tolerant town that Asser Levy tells his story. When the Portuguese recaptured the territory in 1654, they brought the Inquisition and its torments with them, forcing Asser and his family and friends to flee to Holland. About fifteen ships arrive safely in Holland; Asser’s ship does not.

Through imagined diary entries based on real events, Asser tells the harrowing story of the Jewish refugees who arrived on the island of Manhattan and of some of the first court battles fought to allow religious freedom in America.